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Moscow Developers Ponder Another Samsung Delay

For Samsung Electronics, the latest delay in its efforts to sell a smartphone running the Tizen operating system marks yet another setback for Samsung’s homegrown alternative to Android.

Last month, at an event in San Francisco, J.D. Choi, Samsung’s lead man on the Tizen project, held up a smartphone and said that the device, the Samsung Z, would go on sale in Russia in the third quarter of the year.

The official launch was to come at Thursday’s event for Tizen developers in Moscow, complete with market-ready products. But, in an echo of Samsung’s most recent failure to launch a Tizen smartphone in Japan earlier this year. the launch was canceled just days earlier.